Sentence examples for the bad impression from inspiring English sources

"He could get the bad impression that we have always been a violent country".

Ashamed by the bad impression we were making, I dropped the countryside business, and as my dad moved on to other people's shortcomings I thought back to the previous summer, and my twenty-three-hour flight from London to Sydney.

The lack of resources can prevent them from even reaching the starting gate: no computer to search job sites, no way to compensate for the bad impression a missing tooth can leave.

Machiavelli, in his advice to new princes, notes how the initially most suspect servants may ultimately prove most loyal, "inasmuch as they know it to be very necessary for them to cancel by deeds the bad impression which he had formed of them".

Libretti says she is doubtful that Milan itself will see too many benefits from the expo, given that the main attraction is relatively far away and she worries about the "bad impression" tourists will get from seeing African migrants at Milan's main train station, a hub for immigrants as they make their way to northern European destinations.

I compounded the bad impression by planning a symposium during the 1st week of the deer-hunting season.

"The Tiananmen Square event gave the world a very bad impression of the Chinese government, so the Communist Party hopes everyone can forget it," said Mei Fung, a professor at the Beijing Film Academy.

The unfinished construction leaves a bad impression of the city: it is a symbol of the neglect in São Paulo.

Screaming "NO!!!" would give the people in the pet shop a bad impression.

Read literally, these words make a bad impression; the attitudes that got the guy in trouble when drunk are just as much in evidence when sober.

Even so, the worst gaffes still leave a bad impression and the right gestures still earn respect.